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Series
Ministry of Public Building and Works: Directorate General of Research and Development,...
Catalogue reference: WORK 75
What's it about?
WORK 75
The records concern the Directorate's responsibilities for management problems and techniques in the construction industry, including training and education; formulation and amendment of building regulations, including liaison with local...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- WORK 75
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Public Building and Works: Directorate General of Research and Development, Directorate of Building Management: Registered Files (RB Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1962-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records concern the Directorate's responsibilities for management problems and techniques in the construction industry, including training and education; formulation and amendment of building regulations, including liaison with local authorities and the construction industry. The series also contains minutes and papers of the Building Regulations Advisory Committee and those of the Banwell Committee on the Placing and Management of Contracts for Building and Civil Engineering Work.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some building regulations files were re-registered into the HB file series after 1966.
On the creation of the Department of the Environment in 1970 many of these files were, in turn, re-registered into the BRA file series:
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- RB file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 53 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1997 Department of the Environment
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1962-1966
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is not accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14676/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: WORK
Records of the successive Works departments, and the Ancient Monuments Boards and...
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Ministry of Public Building and Works: Directorate General of Research and Development, Directorate of Building Management: Registered Files (RB Series)
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